Log-hoist.



PATENTED JUNE 19, 1906.

w. BBARRY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patept.

. Appliqation fi1ed August 26,1905. s ram -275,941.

T0 all whom zlt may concern:

Be it known that I, WASH BEARRY, a citizen of the United States, residing at 'Escatawpa, in the oounty of Washington and State of- Alabama, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Log-IIoists, of which the following is a specifioation.

Tbis invention relates to carts 01 tri1oks employed for elevating and carrying logs ancl like bulky objects 01 materials, and has for its objeot to provide a simply-constructed and eflioient deviee whereby the load is automatically elevated by the power imparted by the forward movement of the vehicle.

With this and other objects in view, Which will'appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the improvement oonsists in certain novel features of oonstruetion, as hereinafter shown and desoribed.

In the aecompanying drawings is shown the embodiment of the invention in praetical operation.

In the drawings thus employed, Figure is a sectional elevation of the improved device. Fig. 2 is a front elevation, partly in section. Fig. 3 is a detail view, partlj in section, illustrating a slight modifieation in the construction. v

The improved device comprises an axle 10, having bearing-wheels 11 12 at the ende and with a draft-tong'ue 13 connected to the axle. Attached, as by bolts 14 15 to the inner ends of tl1e hubs 16 17 0f the Wheels are annular gear-wheels 18 19. Journaled, as by boxes 01" barings 20 21 22 23, upon the axle 10 are drums 24 25, tl1e drum 24 having a spindle 26 extending fron1 one encl and the drum 25 having a s 'indle 27 extending from the opposite end. 1Iounted rotatively upon the spindles are sleeves 28 29, the sleeve 28 hav'ing an integral gear 30 for running in constant engagement with the gear 1.8 on the hub 16 and the sleeve 29 having integral gear 31 running in constant engagement with the gear 19 on the hub 17. The sleev 28 and spindle 26 are provided With transverse apertures dis0sed in alinement when the sleeve and spind e are in acertainpredet'ermined position for receivinga lockingpin 32, and the sleeve 29 and spindle 27 are similarly apertured to receive a locking-pin 33. The inner ends of the drun1s 24 25 are provided, respectively,

with integral ratchet-wheels 34 35, with Which stop-pawls 36 37, 'c0nnected to the axle 10 01 other suitable ortion of the Vehicle, engage. Extending radially from the drums 2425, near their outer ends, are pins 38 39 to ieceive the oppositeends 01: a chain 40, designed t0 be 'passed beneath the log 01 other object tobe elevated, the latter represented at 41.

By this simple arrangement when a load E01 instance, a logis to be elevated and transported the pins 32 33 are withdrawn, Which Will release the sle6ves 28 29 and their gears 30 31, and then as the vehicle is moved into position above the log the motion of the gears 18 19 Will merely rotate the sleeves, but without efiect onthe drums 24 25. The

' chain 40 is then passed beneath the log 41 and the end links coupled to the pins 38 39.

The pins 32 33 are then restored to oouple the sleeves and their gearsto the spindles, and as the vehicle is .moved forward the motion of the gears 18 19 is transferred' to the drums 24 25 and the cl1ain wound thereon and the log elevated. Wl1en the log has losen elevated to the required height, the pins 32 33 a1e again removed, when the log can be transported any required distanoe, the pawls 36 37 holding the drurns from rotating backwardly. When th6 log has reached the required place, the pawls are released and the log permitted t0 drop, 01' it oan be slowly 10W- -ereol by again inserting the pins 32 33 through the sleeves and spindles and backing the vehicle with the pawls detached.

By employing two dru1'ns and' operating them simultaneously two very important results am accomplished. First, the tractive force of both wheels is utilized to acoomplish 'the desired work, and, second, the log is elevated bodily and without rotating the same while moving it upwardly.

The device is simple in construetion, can be ine xpensively manufaetured, and operates eiiectually for tl1e purpose described.

Provision is also made for employing tvvo chains, and thus handling two logs at once, by arranging eyebolts 42 43 beneath th axle 10 near the ends and also arranging pins 44 45 at the inner ends of the drums 24 25.

In Fig. 3 the inner ends of the drums are journaled in a single bearing 46 instead of upon two bearings, as in Fig. 2'; but these slight modifications in the' structure are not a departure i1om the prinoiple of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to seoure by Letters Patent, is

In a device of tl1e dass descriloed, an axle having bestring-wheels journaled-thereon,

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gear-wheels attached to the hubs of said beargaging said apertures and locking the sleeves ing-wheels, drums spaced apart and mounted to ehe spindles, and a chain f01 detachably for rotation upon said axle and With spindles coupling to said drums.

extending from one end ratchet-wheels 0011- In testimony whereof I affix my signature 5 ne oed tohsaidhdrlllmsl stop-pawls engaging in presence of two witnesses.

sai rate et-w ee s, s eeves rotative u 0n r said spindles and having gears in const%nt 4 WASH BEARR1 engagement With the gears 011 said hubs, said Witnesses: sleeves and spindles having transversely- C. E. MO0RMAN, 10 alined apertures, and pins for detaohably en- J. H. HAIGHT. 

